The pictures that the artists based their work on were factor trees featured on this blog. In fact, that's where they encountered the trees! Mr Gregg was amazed when he first heard from the artists, who he'd not met before, about the project.

Miss Ash and Mr Gregg went to see the private view to open the exhibition. It was wonderful to see how the 2D shapes created by our students had been lovingly recreated in 3D in pastel shades that gave them a sense of being carved in colourful stone.

Sunday, 11 October 2015

We were invited to have a stall at the wonderful Fête des Maths at Beaumont de Lomagne this year.

As well as having some excellent help from some of our students, it was brilliant to see so many families from school coming to enjoy the day at the birthplace and home of Pierre de Fermat.

There were lots of fine stalls there, with all sorts of things to play with: puzzles, games, cooking-related activities, origami; We seven different activities on our stall, and they attracted quite a crowd!

❸Next up, we looked at A-sizes of paper. We use A4 most of the time, but the wonderful thing about this shape rectangle is that you can cut it in half and it's just the same shape scaled down. So, that's what we did, starting at A2 paper:

❹In our fourth lesson, we looked at two models of the A380. The real A380 is one hundred times longer than the big model, and five hundred times longer than the small one.

Taking the small one, how long would the runway at Blagnac need to be to be the same scale?

We looked on Google maps:

So, about 4km. We divided this by 500 together, and got...

8 metres!

We made some 8 metre runways (they're a bit too thin, but never mind):

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Some of the resources talked about on this blog can be found on the website 'Teachmaths'. The aim of the site is to share some of the lessons that teachers might really look forward to teaching.